Split View Web Page Bookmarklet

What feels like forever ago, I described a method Split Screen Screenshots that allow you to put a copy of the same web page into two frames, so that you can grab a screenshot that includes the page header in the top frame, for example, as well as something from waaaaaay down the page in the lower frame.

I didn’t realise that the recipe I described required help from an external service until I tried to reuse the method to grab the following screenshot…

brirminghampayment

Anyway, cribbing from this Chrome Dual View standalone bookmark, here’s an updates version of my split screen bookmarklet:

javascript:url=location.href;f='<frameset rows=\'30%,*\'>\n<frame src=\''+url+'\'/><frame src=\''+url+'\'/></frameset>';with(document){write(f);void(close())}

To make use of it, drag the following link onto you bookmark toolbar, or save the link as a bookmark: Hmm… seems the craptastic WordPress.com doesn’t let me post bookmarklet links? So you’ll have to: bookmark this page, edit the bookmark, paste the above code snippet into the URL. Then when you want to split the view of a webpage, just click the bookmarklet.

Author: Tony Hirst

I'm a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, with an interest in #opendata policy and practice, as well as general web tinkering...

3 thoughts on “Split View Web Page Bookmarklet”

  1. Mr. Hirst: snippet not working for me. Return for this page reads “https://blog.ouseful.info/2015/01/15/split-view-web-page-bookmarklet/.” Same for any page: returns link to page to be split instead of splitting. I copy/pasted your code. Help?

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